Charles Betz

1 week ago | forrester.com | Charles Betz |Julie Mohr |Allie Mellen

Another day, another LinkedIn hot take on enterprise architecture. They fall into various camps: those confusing EA with a Marvel villain, others who think that the ten-year-old religious war between “business” and “enterprise” architects has any actual meaning.

1 week ago | forrester.com | Julie Mohr |Charles Betz |Diego Giudice |Allie Mellen

Atlassian has launched a sweeping upgrade to its platform—and the message is crystal clear: AI isn’t just a feature; it’s the foundation. If you’re working in tech, managing teams, or even just part of a business using Jira or Confluence, this isn’t a subtle shift. It’s a tectonic one. Atlassian dropped a full suite of AI-integrated upgrades on April 9, 2025. The centerpiece?

3 weeks ago | forrester.com | Audrey Chee-Read |Leslie Joseph |Charles Betz

Generative AI was so two years ago. Now, businesses are all about agentic AI (not to be confused with AI agents), channeling the brouhaha of ChatGPT in 2023. But where is the consumer in all this? While businesses are moving to experiment and learn more about agentic AI, consumers are not. Business-oriented, not consumer-oriented, use cases continue to drive most of the buzz around agentic AI.

3 weeks ago | sdtimes.com | Charles Betz

In Greek mythology, Odysseus had to navigate between Scylla and Charybdis — two perils threatening from both sides. Today’s IT leaders face a similar dilemma: technical debt and sprawl on one side; excessive bureaucracy and stifling controls on the other. Enter platform engineering, the emerging discipline that offers a way to steer between these hazards and deliver software faster, safer, and at scale.

3 weeks ago | forrester.com | Charles Betz |Stéphane Vanrechem |Andrew Hewitt |Kelsey Chickering

By Charles Betz and Stéphane VanrechemEnterprise architecture has always aimed for clarity, control, and coherence. Yet its practitioners are often thwarted by an overwhelming paradox: they must guide the evolution of vast, dynamic enterprises using tools and processes that are static, fragmented, and slow. The EA repository, intended as the source of truth, devolves into a dusty attic of outdated diagrams and deliverables.